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Letters .Patent No. 81,665, dated September" 1, 1868.

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T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

13e it known that we, THOMAS-MILLS and GEORGE M. MILLs,\of the city of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Making Candy Toyst and we do hereby declare the following to be a. full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the gures and letters of reference markedthereon. Our invention relates to that class of machines in which candy H'gurcs are moulded, 'by passing 'the.candy, in a pliant state, between 'a pair of-geared rolls, in the faces of which are provided a coincidingseries of dies or moulds, the rolls-being relatively so adjusted as to leave a slight spiace'interveninig between their exterior flat. surfaces,`so that the candy impressions pass out of the rolls on'fthe opposite side, all connected by a continu! fous film. In this state they Vare received upon metallic Vpans, until hard or set, whereupon the figures are separated, and the thin films broken away by hand, to preparethe figures for sale. i

This thin cannot be entirely removed without undue increase of cost of the articles, and the main i object ofl our invention is to provide a means of preventing the formation of this lm on the base or bottom Y end'of such objects, which, according to their nature, should stand upright, as is the'case with human figures, many animals, and a great variety of objects.

We thus reduce the labor required to separate the igures by avoiding the formation of the thin"'on the base, and, at the sa'mc time, produce a more perfect representation vof the objects, thus making them more salable.

The naturesof our invention consists in providing a. pair of supplementary rolls, revolvingon vertiealiaxes,

and rol-ling against opposite sides ofthe die-rollers at the point of contact.

On the faces ofY the die-rolls the moulds are so disposed that the bases of the lgurcs are not formed within the die-rolls, but cut through the sides of the latter, and formed .by the rolling contact of the vertical supplementary rollers, the circumferences of which advance at the same speed as that of the die-rolls.

Another feature of our improvement consists in providing a system of endless bands, hereafter fully described, for the purpose of carrying off the bands of impressions, and turning them from one side to the otherrduring theprocess of chilling or setting, without the need of handling them in this process.

In order that our said invention may be fully understood, we willnow proceed more particularly to describe the same. 4 n

i On reference to the drawing making part o'f this specification, and in which similar letters of reference all-udc to lilie parts throughout the several views- `Figurc 1 is a side elevation of our improved machine.

Figiire`2 is an end view,

Figure 3 a plan of the same, and v i Figure 4 an enlarged sectional view ot'v the four rolls, explaining fully the manner in which the"thinl is avoided on the bases of the figures by the use of side rolls. v

`A A arethe twoV dic-rolls. They are' fitted to horizontal shafts, a a, which have their bearings in the uprights B B. Y

The side rolls, C C, are fitted with short vertical shafts, b b, and receive motion through pairs of bevelwhcels, D E, of such relative dimensions as to give a uniform speed to the faces of the 'four rolls.

' The shafts a aof the 'dic-rolls are, moreover, geared together by a pair of spur-wheels, F F, the whole receiving motion through means of a` crank, Gr, on the upper hOrino'ntal shaft.

A slightly-,inclined table, Il, is provided on the front: side of the machine. It serves to support the mass of candy previous to its passage through the rolls, and has two side guiding-pieces, L h, for confining the candy laterally,land'feeding it properly to the rolls.

The moulds are so disposed on the rolls A A, that their bases are alternately cut through opposite sides of the die-rolls, the candy being at these points confined to the moulds ,by the side rollsC C, which produce a perfectly flat hase, without any thin-i 'on each of the gures, in the manner fully shown at iig'. 4.

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Passing out 'at'the rear' end, the candy figures, connected by onlin, of the width of the die-rolls, are received on on endless bend, I, running over rollers-J and K, and receiving a. motion in proper direction' and of suitable speed fromene of the wheels F, through pinions L M. I l

A second endless bnnd,rN, is provided, underneath I, and driven from lit in the opposite direction by means of n crossed band, O.

The candy figures pnss along the top of the endless band I, which must be made of such length ns to permit thecnndy to become somewhat ser before arriving at its end, ivhere it is turned, to allow the other side to chill, and muy 'be received onlong, nerroiv pans, placedion the lower endless bend, N.' i

In these pans it is then allowed to stand until perfectly hardened, and in n condition for handling, to sepora-te the gures and remove the thin. i

This manner oil alternately chilling both sides of the candy, without the usual handling, nids greatly in preserving,T the shape and clenrness of the candy gures.

The proportionate lengths of the bandsl and' N are vnecessarily much greater than those shown in the drawing, the shortest, I, being about six feet from centre to centre of rollers J K, in the full-size machine.

Having thus described the nature and object of our invention, what we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters 13a-tennis'- The die-rolls A A, with the moulds disposed thereon es described, and operating in combination with the side rolls C C, substantially as and for the purpose specified. i

We also claim, in combination with a. pair-of die-rolls, the described system of endless bands I and N, when. arranged and operating in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

THOMAS MILLS,

GEORGE M. MILLS.' Witnesses:

DAVID JI'LLARD, THEoDonn Beltonen. 

